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I quit!!
- Thread starter dougo83
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I have a lot of experience at quitting smoking/chewing. First, you cannot successfully temporarily replace one with the other. In other words, if you use chew to quit smoking, you just end chewing full time, vice versa. It is all about the nicotine!
No matter what you use to quit, here is the key you must remember for the rest of your life. After you have stopped, You must NEVER chew or smoke again. That one little cig a year or two years down the road can cause a total collapse of all of your efforts. Nicotine is a very strong addiction that lasts forever. The addiction lasts forever...I can't say it enough.
Here is another tip...if you fail the first time, second, third, fourth, etc.....try try again!
No matter what you use to quit, here is the key you must remember for the rest of your life. After you have stopped, You must NEVER chew or smoke again. That one little cig a year or two years down the road can cause a total collapse of all of your efforts. Nicotine is a very strong addiction that lasts forever. The addiction lasts forever...I can't say it enough.
Here is another tip...if you fail the first time, second, third, fourth, etc.....try try again!
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It's been 6 years since I quit after 24 yrs smoking. I bought two packs of really nasty herbal cigarettes and some tincture of Lobelia. For the first week or so if I had a real strong craving surge I'd put a drop or two of the Lobelia into a cup of coffee. At night I'd allow an herbal cigarette or two. It didn't take long for me to realize that pretty much 100% of the oral fixation stuff was all just addiction. Stopped smoking the herbal cigs within a week and stopped putting Lobelia in my after-lunch coffee shortly thereafter. Breath deep and slow and keep it up for a handful of minutes at a time, don't just stop at a ten count. Good luck to all - it was extremely difficult but worth every second of discomfort. The wife used acupuncture. She bought a pack on the way to the acupuncturist, smoked one, and afterward it sat there in her car for two months untouched till she finally threw it away. She was a two-pack-a-day smoker. Pretty interesting, the needles are a lot thicker than I thought they'd be and they barely made a red spot when they were hanging out - the marks were completely gone in a day or two.
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Nobody really quits the first time they quit.
The thing is, you have to experiment with quitting until you find the method that works for you.
The only thing I can say with any certainty is what another poster said earlier: never tell yourself you'll just have one. I would also suggest you not get drunk for the first month or so after quitting: that'll make it a lot easier.
The thing is, you have to experiment with quitting until you find the method that works for you.
The only thing I can say with any certainty is what another poster said earlier: never tell yourself you'll just have one. I would also suggest you not get drunk for the first month or so after quitting: that'll make it a lot easier.